By David Jones | WVUE | February 10, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Following FOX 8 reporting that showed more than 1,500 accused criminals timed out of either jail or their bond obligations, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams said he owns the high number of releases and vowed to make changes. Williams called…
By Devin Bartolotta | WWL-TV | February 10, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO LAKEVIEW, La. — The flashing blue lights of police cars have become all too familiar. But in Lakeview Thursday night, they signaled a community coming together against the violent crime surge in New Orleans. Residents met with the Lakeview Crime Prevention District Officers…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | February 10, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Police are investigating five separate shootings over a 24-hour span in New Orleans. Two people were killed and four were injured in total. According to the Metropolitan Crime Commission, police have investigated more than 55 shootings, 29 classified as…
February 9th, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans recently unsealed the indictment of FLORENCE RANDLE (“RANDLE”), age 70, of Gibson; STACIE WHEATEN (“WHEATEN”), age 50, of Atlanta; JOSEPH BREWTON (“BREWTON”), age 56, of Houma; DAVID BROWN (“BROWN”), age 50, of Morgan City; GILDA HENDERSON (“HENDERSON”), age 69, of Morgan City;…
By Missy Wilkinson | NOLA.com | February 8, 2022 Nadia Sanchez was relaxing in her Gentilly home when she heard what she thought was her 11-year-old sister and 12-year-old brother roughhousing in the front yard. She went outside and witnessed her mother being killed. A carjacker had stolen Jeannot Plessy’s SUV and run over her while…
By Travers Mackel | WDSU | February 7, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — Just days after WDSU Investigates broke the story on a controversial policy inside the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office, the Metropolitan Crime Commission released its own report on the matter. WDSU’s story centered on what’s called a “701 release,” which…
By Lee Zurik & Dannah Sauer | WVUE | February 7, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A recent FOX 8 investigation revealed hundreds of accused criminals essentially timed out of jail or their bond obligations because the District Attorney hadn’t charged them. However, the Metropolitan Crime Commission says the number of releases is much…
By Ken Daley | WVUE | February 7, 2022 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A man who died last weekend after being shot in mid-November was among the four latest homicide victims whose identities were revealed Monday (Feb. 7) by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s office. Terrance Jupiter, 51, succumbed Saturday to complications from gunshot wounds incurred…
By Rob Masson | WVUE | February 7, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A 15-year-old boy was arrested Saturday night after a shooting following a shortened route for the Krewe of Chewbacchus parade. The route was cut in half due to a failure to get police officers to work and other security…
By Michelle Hunter | NOLA.com | February 6, 2022 Major crime in unincorporated Jefferson Parish dropped 12 percent in 2021, with decreases in four of the seven categories of offenses, according to the Sheriff’s Office. It marks the lowest level of crime since the agency began tracking the statistics in 1974, Sheriff Joseph Lopinto III said. “I’m…